"Travesty" and "transvestite" have the same root word too
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect
(not the trans part obviously, that's a false cognate)
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
It's a real cognate, it's just spelled differently because it's an older derivation ("trans + vestire" in Latin becomes "travestire" in Italian becomes "travestir" in French)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Presumably the original meaning wasn't strictly about gender and the idea was just "wearing someone else's clothes", but it's the gendered cross-dressing version of it that stuck in people's heads
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Much like "baeddel" (a very ancient Old English word) is probably related to the Old English verb "baedan" which means "defile", but it's unclear whether the chicken or egg came first -- the idea of defiling/transgressing was always deeply linked to androgyny
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
My friend, do you happen to have any websites or books that discuss this further? It’s FASCINATING. (“Google it” is valid but I’m on my phone & also worried about signal to noise ratio.)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Ok thanks. I’ll poke around tomorrow.
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Replying to @brigidkeely @Nymphomachy
FYI, this is something I know very little about the details of, but there was one of those tempest-in-a-teapot Internet wars a few years ago over "baeddel discourse" (a bunch of transfemmes on the Internet deciding to reclaim the term "baeddel" for themselves leading to drama)
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From what little I could gather on Twitter it ended up being this thing where they decided being a self-proclaimed "baeddel" meant "leaning in" to transphobic tropes, expressing open hostility toward cis women, etc., and incurring a lot of backlash
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Oh my! Thank you for the further information.
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